Segger has eliminated periodic tick interrupts in an RTOS, replacing the typically 1ms system tick with a single-shot hardware timer that generates interrupts when, and only when, necessary, it said.

Performance is a topic that never strays far from the mind of most embedded systems developers. However, relatively speaking, many of us have it easy. We develop soft real-time systems in which a few ...

Welcome to The Zephyr* RTOS with the Intel® Quark™ microcontroller D2000! Intel is now building embedded microcontrollers. They’ve taken the Pentium® processor and taken it down to microcontroller ...